“In My Dreams”

Makthaverskan’s best songs often boil down to some version of fuck you. There’s a healthy dose of that in the band’s latest single, though this time the object of singer Maja Milner’s ire is herself. On “In My Dreams,” she’s howling about blowing her shot at happiness and scolding herself for having “burned every bridge.” Given her fearless stage persona, it’s not difficult to imagine her taking things too far. She’s always sung like the kind of person who, when confronted by a sticking door, throws her whole body into the thing before testing whether a light shove might work.

For such a harsh denouncement, “In My Dreams” sure is heavenly. All the ’80s pop accents that adorned Makthaverskan’s previous work—the fluttering bass and the shimmering guitars—boil over in a delirious rush, as Milner stops kicking herself long enough to imagine what she could have had. “You really need me in my dreams/But in reality you don’t even see me,” she wails, and her anguish cuts hard against the song’s euphoria.